The earliest Chinese paintings in one of the most important collections in the West are now featured in a new public Web resource launched by the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler galleries. “Song and ...

A tradition dating to the third century, landscape painting is one of the most outstanding achievements of Chinese culture. Key styles in this genre emerged during the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) and are ...

Coleridge’s indelible phrase, “stately pleasure-dome,” just about sums up this sumptuous, mammoth show, which does, in fact, include a seven-foot-tall stone post, carved with dragons and flowers, ...

Archaeologists may have finally solved the mystery of where Kublai Khan's legendary Yuan dynasty palace once stood. During underground renovations at the Palace Museum in Beijing, experts found "a ...

Classic Stage Company’s “Snow in Midsummer” revives an epic tale from China’s theatrical golden age, bringing ancient lore to life for a modern audience. The rule of the Yuan Dynasty (1260-1368), ...

Asia Society Museum presents Imperial Treasures: Chinese Ceramics of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, on view in New York from February 18, 2025 ...

The trade war between the U.S. and China rages on but it did not spoil the mood of bidders taking part in a fine classical Chinese paintings auction in Hong Kong as an ancient scroll sold for a record ...

The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasty Studies is an international society committed to the encouragement of the study of Chinese—as well as Jürchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol—history, ...